[Reader-list] End Economic Blokade of Kashmir Valley - CPI (ML)

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

Another PR Exercise to spread and further justify lies. Unfortunate..

On 8/14/08, Kashmir Affairs <kashaffairs at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> End Economic Blockade of Kashmir Valley
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> New Delhi, August 13, 2008.  Delhi Committee of CPI(ML) New Democracy
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> organized a program at Jantar Mantar from 1130 onwards to demand that the
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> blockade of Kashmir be lifted forthwith, curfew be lifted and firing and
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> repression by armed forces in J&K on common people be stopped immediately.
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> Condemning the communal conspiracies of rulers and ruling class parties
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> against the people of Jammu and Kashmir the party demanded that ex-CM
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> Azad, Mufti and ex-Governor Sinha be prosecuted.
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> Students, working class leaders, youth and several intellectuals took part
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> in the protest. The protestors held posters displaying their demands.
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> Speakers condemned the rulers of J&K –the trimuverate of Azad, Mufti and
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> Sinha- for blatantly and insensitively creating a situation where the
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> people of Kashmir feel threatened over their right to their own land. As
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> it is, the ruling classes of India have trampled underfoot the democratic
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> aspirations of the people of Kashmir and subjected them to severe
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> repression and blatant violations of democratic rights. Now, after
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> literally forcing the Kashmiri people to take to the streets to defend
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> their rights to their land, the ruling class parties have pitted the
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> people of Jammu against them in a bid to fan communal divisions among the
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> people. People in all parts of the state are bearing the brunt of armed
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> forces repression, especially the people of the Kashmir Valley.
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> The issue, which has baselessly been projected at being at stake, is the
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> Amarnath Yatra which has been on for over a century, with arrangements
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> being made by the Government of Kashmir and local Kashmiri Muslims aiding
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> the pilgrims. People of the entire country know this to be the fact which
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> is why it makes no sense for any organisation in Jammu to  say they are
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> fighting for the rights of Hindu pilgrims-it is crystal clear that leaders
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> of Congress and BJP are fanning and leading the so called reaction in
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> Jammu.
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> To add fuel to the fire, the government of India is busy denying the fact
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> of economic blockade of Kashmir, even as it's Defence Minister offers
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> assurances that fruits will be purchased and consumed by 'school children
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> and CRPF'! – where is there need of such steps if no blockade exists? In
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> fact, an all out attempt is on by the government to alienate and isolate
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> the people of the Valley, further curb their democratic space and
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> communalize the entire situation-in which it is being ably assisted by the
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> BJP.
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> Com. Aparna (Delhi Party Secretary), Dr. Mrigank (Pres. Naujawan Bharat
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> Sabha), Ms. Poonam Kaushik (Gen Secy. Pragatisheel Mahila Sanghatan),
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> Dr.Animesh Das (President IFTU, Delhi) and known intellectuals like, Ish
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> Mishra, Tapan Bose, Gautam Navlakha and Mir Imtiaz addressed the
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> gathering.
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> CPI(ML) New Democracy demands the immediate lifting of economic blockade
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> of Kashmir, lifting of curfew and stop to repression of people of J&K and
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> prosecution of Azad-Mufti and Sinha. (Ends)
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> APARNA
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> Secy. Delhi Committee
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